Food Safety & Quality Specialist

At Picnic, we’re revolutionizing the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service. We do almost everything in-house, developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat. If you're passionate about food safety & quality, we’re offering you the opportunity to join the diverse team at our office in Amsterdam and make a real difference in our scale-up environment.

🥜 In a nutshell

Products are the core of our business. We aim to offer the best product range, to make sure we always deliver the best quality. We are on the hunt for a Food Safety & Quality Expert with superb knowledge about food laws & regulation. You will take ownership of Picnic's food and safety quality processes and standards, ensuring 100% compliance with the latest food safety regulations. This includes creating new processes, setting internal standards and running day to day food quality operations. You will collaborate with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, including category managers, supply chain professionals, customer service teams, suppliers and third-party testing services.

🎯 What you’ll do

• Take ownership of Picnic's food and safety quality processes and standards, ensuring 100% compliance with the latest food safety regulations.
• Stay updated on new food laws and regulations, and keep the category team informed of relevant developments.
• Collaborate closely with our category managers to streamline the label checking process and take responsibility for ensuring that all our labels adhere to legal requirements.
• Coordinate microbiological & listeria testing process, interpret and summarize results, and provide guidance to our category managers on improvement plans.
• Work in close partnership with our supply chain, customer service teams, and category managers to run and improve recall processes, and have the confidence to make recall decisions based on your expertise.
• Together with our category managers, oversee supplier performance to maintain high standards.
• Coordinate certification processes for all suppliers and products.

⭐ About you

• MSc. degree in Food Safety, Food Technology, or equivalent
• At least 2 years of experience in the food safety industry, preferably in the retail industry
• A genuine passion for food safety
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills
• You enjoy working in a young, dynamic environment and you have a strong sense of responsibility
• You are full of ideas to improve current operations
• Drive to deal with day-to-day operations with swift problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and love a good challenge
• Fluent in English and Dutch

📖 Picnic perks

Every expert was once a beginner!

• You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

Make a difference

• You’ll work in an awesome scale-up environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact.
• Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

Teamwork makes the dream work

• With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

You are what you eat

• You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

Stay healthy

• Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.
• There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga to climbing!

Attractive package

• We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self.

Work-life balance

• Where possible, we like to enable people to work in ways that suit their working styles. Our teams generally like to work 4 days at the office (the tasty lunch and Barista-made coffee may be a factor).

Commitment to equal opportunities

Picnic is an equal opportunity employer—this means that all decisions regarding applications will be based on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be regarded independently of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color, civil status, religious beliefs, physical or mental disability, or any other factors protected by law.

At Picnic, we celebrate and value our differences and are committed to building a safe and inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves.